Joy to the World!

At long last — at the ripe young age of 42 — our own Warren Bolton is a Daddy.

Alexander Warren Bolton came into the world at 10:54 p.m. Saturday. His stats are perfect — seven pounds, nine ounces and 21 and a quarter inches. Alexander, Mother Tanya, and of course Warren himself are doing great, aside from only having rested about half an hour since the blessed event.

Alexander is one lucky young fellow. I don’t know of two people in this world more likely to be wonderful parents than Warren and Tanya. This is something I’ve looked forward to for a long time (I’m sure the happy parents have, too, but hey, this is my blog), since long before the couple even met. There are just some people you meet and one of the first things you think about them is what wonderful, nurturing and wise parents they would be, and you just can’t wait for something like this to come along and provide the means to prove you right.

Speaking of being right, I’ll have you know that I predicted this child would be a boy from the start, based upon my infallible "morning-sickness" test. Girls disturb their mamas’ hormones more than boys do, sometimes giving them morning-noon-and-night sickness, and Tanya had little trouble with anything like that (or so she reported; she’s not the sort to complain). Science may scoff at my theory, but I haven’t been wrong yet when I have ventured to make a prediction based on it.

I was a little off on one thing, though: The baby was due July 4, and all last week people kept asking me, "Any news from Warren?" To which I would say, "News? Oh, that. This is a first baby, and first babies are generally late. I don’t expect this child until Friday afternoon, after we’ve put all the weekend pages together and Warren can take his proofs with him and read them at the hospital." OK, so I was a day off. Warren (and son Alexander, and Mama of course) are very conscientious, and obviously wanted to get the entire page production process out of the way first.

Silly rambling aside, I’m just as pleased as I can be at this news, even though we’ll miss Warren during the few days he’ll be taking off to get the hang of his new role. And he’d better bring that boy in to see us ASAP.

But if I’m happy, that is nothing compared to what Warren and Tanya are feeling. As for Alexander, he is indeed a lucky child to be going to live in as loving and godly a home as anyone can ever wish for. (And he’d better act right. But I know he will.) Joy to them all. I can think of no one who deserves it more.